The Daily Escape:
Old Harry Rocks, Dorset England – drone photo by Ryan Howell
Wrongo has, like so many others, spent the last eight months in disbelief. Every day, more stupid tweets, more stupid legislation proposed, more threats to the American people.
He went to bed last night expecting to wake up this morning to the GOP celebrating the thinnest of wins, another blow to our health insurance. But, there was a small victory in the dead of night. Now we gear up for the next battle. The Republicans are not defeated, and cannot give up on what they promised their base for the past seven years, so we should expect to see another attempt on this soon.
A great letter to the editor in the NYT accurately captures GOP dysfunction: (emphasis by the Wrongologist)
Republican attempts to overturn the Affordable Care Act by flinging irresponsible alternatives that would wreak havoc with the health of millions of citizens have set a new low in legislative responsibility.
The outcome of many of these votes was a foregone conclusion. That the Republican leaders are comfortable putting on a show rather than seriously addressing the problems of access to and cost of health care is an embarrassment.
Their actions are not worthy of the salaries that they are paid.
In the past six months, we’ve come to expect the bizarre from Trump and his GOP Trumpets.
This week was no exception. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke threatened both Alaska Senators with withholding of federal funds for their state because Sen. Lisa Murkowski planned to vote against the Republican health care bill. These Sopranos-like threats happen all the time in DC. Murkowski gets extra credit for telling Trump to go to hell by putting a few of his nominees on hold before voting against the GOP bill.
But, the strangest of strange this week was Trumpâs speech to the Boy Scouts: Trump crowed about his election victory, attacked the news media and criticized Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama. Now, the Scouts are non-political, and few of them are old enough to vote. The speech resulted in the Scoutsâ sending a letter of apology to the American people.
Then there was Trumpâs new hired gun, Scaramucci, who said to the New Yorker:
Iâm not Steve Bannon, Iâm not trying to suck my own cock.
In less than a year we’ve gone from “Grab âem in the pussy” to âIâm not trying to suck my own cock.â
Itâs demeaning. Wrongo is not offended by the language. He has heard, and in the remote past used those words, if not in that precise order. But Wrongo doesn’t work in the White House. Trump and his team represent all of us, and we deserve better.
Itâs Saturday, and you expect better, too. Time to brush off the trail dust, let go of the shenanigans and vote to repeal and replace this entire week. Here is Debussyâs “Arabesque No. 1 and No. 2”. He wrote them between 1888 and 1891. Debussy said of these arabesques:
That was the age of the âwonderful arabesque’, when music was subject to the laws of beauty inscribed in the movements of Nature herself.
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